revoir

French

Etymology

re- +‎ voir, or from Latin revideo, revidere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.vwaʁ/

• audio ("au revoir"):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -waʁ

Verb

revoir

1. to see again
2. to re-examine

Conjugation

Verbs derived from voir form their future and conditional forms using the root verr- instead of the vr- or voir- of other verbs.

Conjugation of revoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	revoir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	revoyant /ʁə.vwa.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		revu /ʁə.vy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	revois /ʁə.vwa/	revois /ʁə.vwa/	revoit /ʁə.vwa/	revoyons /ʁə.vwa.jɔ̃/	revoyez /ʁə.vwa.je/	revoient /ʁə.vwa/
	imperfect	revoyais /ʁə.vwa.jɛ/	revoyais /ʁə.vwa.jɛ/	revoyait /ʁə.vwa.jɛ/	revoyions /ʁə.vwaj.jɔ̃/	revoyiez /ʁə.vwaj.je/	revoyaient /ʁə.vwa.jɛ/
	past historic2	revis /ʁə.vi/	revis /ʁə.vi/	revit /ʁə.vi/	revîmes /ʁə.vim/	revîtes /ʁə.vit/	revirent /ʁə.viʁ/
	future	reverrai /ʁə.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁe/	reverras /ʁə.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁa/	reverra /ʁə.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁa/	reverrons /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɔ̃/	reverrez /ʁə.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁe/	reverront /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reverrais /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɛ/	reverrais /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɛ/	reverrait /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɛ/	reverrions /ʁə.vɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁjɔ̃/	reverriez /ʁə.vɛ.ʁje/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁje/	reverraient /ʁə.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ve.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	revoie /ʁə.vwa/	revoies /ʁə.vwa/	revoie /ʁə.vwa/	revoyions /ʁə.vwaj.jɔ̃/	revoyiez /ʁə.vwaj.je/	revoient /ʁə.vwa/
	imperfect2	revisse /ʁə.vis/	revisses /ʁə.vis/	revît /ʁə.vi/	revissions /ʁə.vi.sjɔ̃/	revissiez /ʁə.vi.sje/	revissent /ʁə.vis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	revois /ʁə.vwa/	—	revoyons /ʁə.vwa.jɔ̃/	revoyez /ʁə.vwa.je/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• au revoir = until [we] see [each other] again
• revue

Further reading

• “revoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.